#1Film, TV & Stage
Amanda Crew
born 1986Canadian actress
33 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Langley, British Columbia
34 famous people from Langley, many of them athletes
Articles in 33 languages make the Canadian actress Amanda Crew the best known. Svein Tuft, the racing cyclist, comes second, with Jessica Hewitt third. 28 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. The list runs from Manfred McGeer, born in 1893, to Dennis Cholowski, born in 1998.
Born here
34
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Amanda Crew
33 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1893
Manfred McGeer
Youngest
1998
Dennis Cholowski
Most common field
Sports
23 people
What stands out about Langley’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Langley’s famous people were born
The 1980s top the chart, with 18 births in the decade.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawNotableMusicScience & Medicine
Every person is a dot in the column of the decade they were born.
Known for
What Langley is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.8 times.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
The best known
Born in Langley
Two of the three are athletes.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Langley
31 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Langley’s, with 12.
Questions about famous people from Langley
Who is the most famous person from Langley?
By our measure the best known is Amanda Crew (Canadian actress); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Svein Tuft and Jessica Hewitt.
How many famous people were born in Langley?
Wikidata has 53 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Langley known for?
They make up 68% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Langley?
Manfred McGeer, from 1893; the most recent birth on the list is from 1998.
Who counts as from Langley?
Born inside Langley’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. Langley is also the name of another municipality in British Columbia: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Langley”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (16)
- Amanda Crew: alimartell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Svein Tuft: formerly-JF presently S-Team, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brett Lawrie: Keith Allison on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danton Heinen: Meowwcat, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dennis Cholowski: Jenn G, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brad Turner: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lammers: Alex Micheu Photography from VILLACH, Austria, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mable Elmore: Rod Raglin, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Lennerton: Chi-Hung Lin on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Ferguson: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Holyoak: Reasoninglab, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kellin Deglan: EricEnfermero, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Pope: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wes Barker: The Cafe (Archive), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shea Theodore: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Kremyr: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).